John 10:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”

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  • 1 John 4:5-6 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 ‘I know your works as well as your labor and steadfast endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles(but are not), and have discovered that they are false.
  • 1 Kgs 22:7 : 7 But Jehoshaphat asked,“Is there not a prophet of the LORD still here, that we may ask him?”
  • Prov 19:27 : 27 If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
  • Mark 4:24 : 24 And he said to them,“Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.
  • Eph 4:11-15 : 11 And he himself gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature. 14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes. 15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
  • Col 2:6-9 : 6 Warnings Against the Adoption of False Philosophies Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. 8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
  • 2 Tim 3:5-7 : 5 They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these. 6 For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions. 7 Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.
  • 1 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, 3 if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
  • 1 John 2:21 : 21 I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
  • Luke 8:18 : 18 So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 10:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1 Jesus as the Good Shepherd“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

    2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

    3 The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

    4 When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

  • John 10:26-28
    3 verses
    83%

    26 But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

    27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

    28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

  • John 10:6-9
    4 verses
    79%

    6 Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

    7 So Jesus said again,“I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

    8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

    9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

  • John 10:11-16
    6 verses
    76%

    11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

    12 The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

    13 Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

    14 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–

    15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.

    16 I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

  • Hos 5:6
    71%

    6 The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him– he has withdrawn himself from them!

  • Ezek 34:5-7
    3 verses
    70%

    5 They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.

    6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

    7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:

  • Matt 7:15
    70%

    15 A Tree and Its Fruit“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.

  • Jer 25:35
    70%

    35 The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

  • Luke 15:3-5
    3 verses
    68%

    3 So Jesus told them this parable:

    4 “Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

    5 Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

  • 1 John 4:5
    68%

    5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

  • Jer 50:6
    68%

    6 “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allowed them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.

  • Acts 20:29
    68%

    29 I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

  • Ps 18:45
    68%

    45 foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.

  • John 16:3
    67%

    3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • Matt 15:14
    67%

    14 Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”

  • Matt 7:6
    67%

    6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

  • Luke 17:23
    67%

    23 Then people will say to you,‘Look, there he is!’ or‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.

  • John 15:21
    67%

    21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

  • Matt 10:6
    67%

    6 Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  • Jer 10:21
    67%

    21 For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the LORD’s advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.

  • Luke 10:3
    67%

    3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.

  • Matt 25:32
    67%

    32 All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

  • John 10:39
    67%

    39 Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

  • Matt 18:12
    67%

    12 What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?

  • Ezek 34:9-10
    2 verses
    67%

    9 Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:

    10 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.

  • Isa 5:17
    66%

    17 Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

  • Prov 7:5
    66%

    5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.

  • Zech 11:16
    66%

    16 Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

  • Matt 7:20
    66%

    20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.

  • Isa 61:5
    66%

    5 “Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.

  • Prov 1:15
    66%

    15 My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

  • John 8:47
    66%

    47 The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

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